I need /bin/sh and /sbin/depmod to make some driver work. How do I get these
(I know I am lame )

Tnx for the help

It is for distro Slackware 9.1

Gijs wrote:
> I need /bin/sh and /sbin/depmod to make some driver work. How do I get these

now, i *could* tell you to do this (as root):

# cat /dev/null > /bin/sh
# cat /dev/null > /sbin/depmod

but i'm not sure you would take me seriously.

anyway, you should *have* these files. your system is quite broken without
them.

> (I know I am lame )

yes, you are.

> Tnx for the help

i'm trying to think of the best way to point you to the place where you'll
find the information you seek. i think mentioning the file MANIFEST.bz2
should be enough. then it'll be up to you to find that file, find out how
to look at its contents, and find in it what you need to know.

now go and do that. you will learn a lot.

then when you've done that, ask and answer yourself these questions:

why am i thinking that i don't have these files? what messages am i getting
to make me think that? what symptoms? could there perhaps be another reason
why i see those messages and those symptoms? might there be something else
wrong? how can i find out whether i have those files? where is google?

when you've done that, you've taken your first step on the road to
Self-Reliance. and trust me, that's a nice little town, where life is good.

teach a fish to man, and all that stuff, you know.

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comp.tools.unusable or something... ;-)

Gijs wrote:
> I need /bin/sh

Good God! The guy has no shell! What on earth are you using to give
commands to the OS? Punch cards? Smoke signals? ;p


Try 'which bash' or 'which zsh'. Hell, cat /etc/shells and see'em all...
/bin/sh is sometimes a soft link to the real shell. I use zsh (the Z
shell!), but my /bin/sh links to bash. You can make it like:
ln -s /bin/bash /bin/sh to put the link back, but I tend to think your
path is not set, if you can't see a shell or depmod.


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On 26 Oct 2003 21:25:16 GMT,
Joost Kremers <joostkremers@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> teach a fish to man

That leaves me with very strange imagery in my head. :-)


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On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 21:52:54 +0100,
Gijs <gijs@members.ee> wrote:
> I need /bin/sh and /sbin/depmod to make some driver work. How do I get these

You most likely have these installed. (If you don't I'd be very
worried). Try doing:

$ ls -l /bin/sh
$ ls -l /sbin/depmod

in a shell. This should show that they are both on your system.

Note that to run depmod properly, you need to be root. (That is why it
is in /sbin and not /bin).

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Mark Hill mark_usenet@yahoo.co.uk wrote:

<snip>
>> teach a fish to man
>
> That leaves me with very strange imagery in my head. :-)

I think it's the fish that's always riding the bicycle in the other
'figure of Speech'. How does it type to get to the Man pages though?
Specially adapted fins?

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On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 01:25:16PM PST, Joost Kremers wrote
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> # cat /dev/null > /bin/sh
> # cat /dev/null > /sbin/depmod

UUOC

# touch /bin/sh /sbin/depmod

Jurgen.

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Jurgen Philippaerts wrote:
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> On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 01:25:16PM PST, Joost Kremers wrote
> in article <slrnbpoetj.ob6.joostkremers@j.kremers4.news.arnhe m.chello.nl>:
>
>> # cat /dev/null > /bin/sh
>> # cat /dev/null > /sbin/depmod
>
> UUOC
>
> # touch /bin/sh /sbin/depmod

not if they already exist, jurgen. (which they probably do. yes, i was
being mean. ;-)

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Jurgen Philippaerts <jurgen@see.my.pgp.key> wrote:

>> # cat /dev/null > /bin/sh
>> # cat /dev/null > /sbin/depmod
>
> UUOC
>
> # touch /bin/sh /sbin/depmod

Actually, Joost's suggestion was deliberate as a great way of
paralyzing a newbie's system. Touch doesn't have the same result.

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